Why torrent when you can use newsgroups? No need to seed, just download and done. Haven’t torrented for 10 years.
this post was submitted on 27 Feb 2025
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If it keeps newcomers from making mistakes in client choice it looks like a good thing to me?
But is the statement correct? What’s the story behind uTorrent?
μTorrent, or uTorrent (see pronunciation), is a proprietary adware BitTorrent client owned and developed by Rainberry, Inc.
That should be enough for any sane person. A proprietary bittorrent client is the worst joke i have heard in a while.
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Yes. It stopped being good around 2010-2012 depending on who you ask. Unfortunately there are still plenty of old blog posts praising it. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%9CTorrent
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The parent company, bittorrent Inc got purchased by a serial crypto scammer Justin Sun at some point.
In March 2022, the SEC charged Rainberry with fraud for selling cryptocurrencies Tronix (TRX) and BitTorrent (BTT) as unregistered securities.
I think the SEC dropped all charges recently because the literal US government got on the payroll of Tether Inc, which basically runs the crypto show. Justin is just one of the appendages to the scheme.
After uTorrent was brought by BitTorrent Inc, they started releasing new shady versions, first added ads then released uTorrent bundle with crypto mining software without user consent
https://torrentfreak.com/new-utorrent-release-breaks-ties-with-bitcoin-miner-150413/
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Took long enough. uTorrent has been cancerous for a long time now.
didn't realize people were still using utorrent. been at least a decade since it was decent
uTorrent's brand recognition is crazy, it's been crap for years and it still the name people who don't torrrent often recognize.
Nice change, good to steer the novices away from that junk.
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I thought people either used the old 2.2.1 version or jumped ship. Had no idea it was still going.
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If uTorrent has no haters, I am dead
Do people still use transmission? That seems like be the default one I see in prebuilt torrent server containers.
Yeah, Transmission is pretty nice, there's nothing wrong with it. It's also pretty popular among macOS users, because it looks and feels like a native app.
Yepp, been using it for years. Lots of third party app support and a minimal web interface to add a new 🧲🚢 in a hurry
Definitely does not have any bells and whistles though, doesn't bother me but is a dealbreaker for some.
It's not bad but it's pretty bare. A lot of people like their bells and whistles these days.
Edit: Changed the wording to be less broad for all the "But I..." specials.
speak for yourself. if it's pretty bare, it just moved to the top of my list
Then enjoy. It just isn't for a lot of people. You have helped as a statistic to the original question though.
Transmission's minimal features is what I like about it.
Does Transmission let you force the use of a specific connection?
For example, qBittorrent lets you choose your VPN as its only allowed connection so that you can't accidentally use your regular network when not connected to the VPN.
Never thought of that. In my use case, Transmission is running in a container on my server, so it only ever has one connection, and VPN and traffic management happens on my router.
Hi! Could you give me some details or a link that describes how to do that? I'd like to harden my install. Thank you! :)
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transmission-cli path-to.torrent 😍
There are other options such as qbittorrent or deluge though I would not recommend deluge due to IP leaks and it hasn't been updated since 2022
It's the default included with Ubuntu but they (Ubuntu) haven't updated it to be the latest released version. You have to add their PPA.
I switched over to qbittorrent for better control over what happens after the files download a few years ago.
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ruTorrent)))